Improved carpet-cleaner



AUGUSTINE WNONEY, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IM'PROVED CARPET-CLEANER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 21,211, dated August i7, 1858. A

To @ZZ whom; it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, AUGUSTINE W. NONEY, of Bridgeport, county of Fairiield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Im` proved Machine for Sweeping and Cleaning Floors and Carpets; and l do hereby declare that the-following is a full and exact descrip- `tion thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In Figure 1 A represents a covered box of dimensions, say, eighteen inches square horizontally and twelve inches high from` the iioor in the highest part. Said box rests on two large traveling wheels, of which B represents one, (the other being on the opposite side of the box,) and two small rollers in front, (one of which'is shown at I, the other being on the opposite side of the box.) Thebottom of the box is thus raised from the iioor, say, from three-fourths of an inch to one and onehalf inch, and said box is pushed forward or drawn backward by the handle C.

The sweeping apparatus consists of a revolving cylinder-brush G, (shown also in Fig. 2,) which is almost entirely contained within the box A, (the lower side of the brush only touchingthe door.) Its axis projects through the sides of the box and has a pulley E (see also Fig. 4) fixed in each end. Around each of said pulleys passes a cord or band, crossed and carried around each of the traveling wheels, whereby, when the machine is in motion forward or backward, said brush is rapidly rotated in a direction opposite that of the said traveling wheels. Said brush by means of an adjustable journal F is capable of being raised or lowered to provide for the wear of the brush. The dirt and dust taken up bythe brush are collected in a dustapan sliding into the box A from the rear, the end of which appears at D. H H beneath the boxone in frontand the other behind said brush- (and more fully shown in Figs.. 3 and i) are brush (as the case may be) may draw backd l ward partly under the brush and permit the dust to be carried over and upon it (the drag) into the box, thus enabling this sweeper to be used to equal advantage with either" a backward or a forward movement, which isa new feature in machines of this character.

Fig. 2 shows the internal arrangement of the machine. H H represent the flaps or drags attached to the guides or shields J K,

the one in front and the other in rear of the brush. J represents the guide or shield in front of the brush, and is separately shown in Fig. 3. It is curved in shape to correspond as nearly as practicable with the cylindrical form of the brush, reaching along the Whole length of the brush from one side of the box to the other. It extends upward from the bottom of the box, (where it joins the iiap H,) partially surrounding the brush nearly or quite to the top of the brush. Itis set in close proximity to the brush, but not in actual com tact. When the box moves forward, the drag H draws partially under the brush, and thus l it and the shield J form a continuous curved shield about the front side of the brush, thus confining the dust which said brush takes up in its rotation, and also conning the current of air which the rapid rotation of the brush creates, whereby the` dust is carried up to the top of the brush, where it escapes from under the shield J, and by the joint action of said current of air and the rotation of the brush is thrown into the back part of the box and into the dust-gpan. K (shown separatelyl in Fig.`

3) is a similar shield 4on the backside of the brush, reaching from the bottom of the box (where it is attached to the drag H) to a little above the top of the front edge of the dustpan. Itis there bent backward over the Vedge,

of the dustpan, in order to prevent the escape of the dust between itself and the pan. `When` thus insuring by the joint action of the brush and the aircurrent that the dust shall be thrown up into the box and the dustpan.

Fig. 3 shows the two shields or guidesJ K detached, having the drags or iaps H H atd tached to them,`respectively. To these shields are also attached the slotted ears L L on each end ofthe shield, respectively, (the said ears being also shown at L L in Fig. 4.) The object of these is to permit the said shields to be adjusted and kept near the brush as it wears away in service.- s

Fig. 4 shows the under side of the machine for the purpose of exhibiting its arrangements from another point of view. A A are the sidesV of the box; B B, the traveling wheels'- one on each side of the box-connected by belts or .cords with the brush-pulleys E E', which are shown upon the axis of the brush G. D is the dust-pan. H H are the flexible aps orv drags above described. L L L L are the slotted ears whereby by means of set-screws here shown the above-described shields or guides J K, Figs. 2 3, may be adjusted, together with the said flaps HH', in the manner and for the purposes already explained.

I do not claim the revolving cylinder-brush, nor the dust-pan, nor the inclosing-box, nor the combination o f the three, all these having been long known and used; but

Thecoinbination and arrangement of said ilaps or drags and the saidk shields with the revolving cylinder-brush, box, and dust-pan,`

in the manner above described, as and for the purposes specified.

AUGUSTINE W. NONEY.

Y Witnesses:

WILLIAM K. SEELFY, HENRY T. BLAKE. 

